Cast: David Ryall

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring David Ryall. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Singing Detective (TV Miniseries)

1986 · Series · 415 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley

Plot Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in...

7.7

152 votes

7.7

152 votes

To Play the King (House of Cards II) (TV Miniseries)

1993 · Series · 220 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Michael Kitchen · Kitty Aldridge · Colin Jeavons

Plot In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows...

7.4

414 votes

7.4

414 votes

The Village (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 59 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Antonia Bird · Gillies MacKinnon · Dominic Leclerc · Luke Watson

Cast Maxine Peake · John Simm · David Ryall · Nico Mirallegro

Plot TV Series (2013-2014). 2 Seasons. 12 Episodes. Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.

7.2

194 votes

7.2

194 votes

Clapham Junction (TV)

2007 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast Tom Beard · Rachael Blake · Samantha Bond · Stuart Bunce

Plot 36 hours in the lives of a number of gay men in Clapham, South London.

6.9

146 votes

6.9

146 votes

The Woman in Black (TV)

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Adrian Rawlins · Bernard Hepton · David Daker · Pauline Moran

Plot When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant...

6.2

228 votes

6.2

228 votes

Carrington

1995 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Christopher Hampton

Cast Emma Thompson · Jonathan Pryce · Steven Waddington · Rufus Sewell

Plot The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Steve Bendelack

Cast Mark Gatiss · Steve Pemberton · Reece Shearsmith · David Warner

Plot The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real...

6.2

104 votes

6.2

104 votes

Restoration

1994 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Hoffman

Cast Robert Downey Jr. · Sam Neill · Hugh Grant · Meg Ryan

Plot An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Wilt

1989 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Tuchner

Cast Griff Rhys Jones · Mel Smith · Alison Steadman · Diana Quick

Plot Henry Wilt is a more or less failure of a teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. After his wife disappears on the day after a party,...

5.3

476 votes

5.3

476 votes

The Borrowers (TV Miniseries)

1992 · Movie · 170 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Henderson

Cast Ian Holm · Penelope Wilton · Rebecca Callard · Paul Cross

Plot The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human homes, and survive by 'borrowing' all...

5.1

21 votes

5.1

21 votes

Automata

2014 · Movie · 110 min. · Spain

Direction Gabe Ibáñez

Cast Antonio Banderas · Birgitte Hjort Sørensen · Melanie Griffith · Dylan McDermott

Plot Year 2044. Planet earth is in the midst of gradual desertification. Mankind struggles to survive as the environment deteriorates and the slow regression of the human race begins in "Automata"....

4.8

6K votes

4.8

6K votes

Love for Lydia (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Wharmby · Christopher Hodson · John Glenister · Piers Haggard

Cast Mel Martin · Christopher Blake · Jeremy Irons · Sherrie Hewson

Plot TV Series (1977). 13 episodes. This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and...

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The Knowledge (TV)

1979 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bob Brooks

Cast Nigel Hawthorne · Mick Ford · Kim Taylforth · Jonathan Lynn

Plot Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

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The Dance of Death

1969 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Giles

Cast Laurence Olivier · Geraldine McEwan · Robert Lang · Janina Faye

Plot An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice,...

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Shuttlecock

1993 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Andrew Piddington

Cast Alan Bates · Lambert Wilson · Kenneth Haigh · Jill Meager

Plot Major James Prentis is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends...

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Justiz

1993 · Movie · 106 min. · Germany

Direction Hans W. Geissendörfer

Cast Maximilian Schell · Thomas Heinze · Anna Thalbach · Mathias Gnädinger

Plot Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and...

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Walter (TV)

1982 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Ian McKellen · Barbara Jefford · Arthur Whybrow · Tony Melody

Plot A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.

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The Tractate Middoth (TV)

2013 · Movie · 36 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mark Gatiss

Cast Sacha Dhawan · Louise Jameson · John Castle · Roy Barraclough

Plot A chilling adaptation of MR James's short story and a return of the cherished ghost story to BBC Two at Christmas. In a quiet academic library, John Eldred seeks out...

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Blackball

2003 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mel Smith

Cast Paul Kaye · James Cromwell · Alice Evans · Bernard Cribbins

Plot Try as he might, the roguishly handsome Cliff Starkey, just can't keep out of trouble. In his sleepy home town on the English coast, nothing much inspires him...apart from bowls....

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In the Red (TV Miniseries)

1998 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marcus Mortimer

Cast Sally Phillips · Warren Clarke · David Ryall · Rebecca Front

Plot A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a...

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Not rated